190,000 cannabis plants destroyed in Pernambuco's sertão
The Federal Police ran Operation Terra Livre I from 21 February to 2 March 2024 in the sertão of Pernambuco, destroying about 190,000 cannabis plants and 19,000 seedlings on 34 plots and seizing 71 kg of cannabis ready for use. The police did not say whether anyone was arrested, and estimated the crop could have yielded 63 tonnes.
The Federal Police announced the results of its latest cannabis eradication
operation in the sertão of Pernambuco, run between 21 February and 2 March 2024.[1]The operation destroyed about 190,000 cannabis plants and 19,000 seedlings
growing on 34 plots.[1]Officers also seized71 kilograms of cannabis ready
for consumption.[1]The Federal Police did not say whether anyone was
arrested.[1]
The plots lay on islands of the São Francisco river and on the mainland around
Orocó, Triunfo, Salgueiro, Cabrobó, Belém do São Francisco, Betânia, Flores,
Carnaubeira da Penha, Sertânia and Dormentes.[1]The Federal Police estimated
that the destroyed plants, if harvested and pressed, could have produced 63
tonnes of the drug.[1]Federal, civil, military and penal police took part,
working on land and on the water with inflatable boats and an aircraft of the
state air tactical group, GTA.[1]Officers worked with land and river
incursions using inflatable boats and an aircraft of the GTA, the state public
security secretariat’s air tactical group.[1]
Gazeta Brasil and O DEBATE ON, republishing Portal Novo Norte, carry the same
Federal Police statement and name the operation Terra Livre I.[2]The
statement says the raids are part of the strategy of the Federal Police’s
general coordination against drugs, weapons, crimes against property and
criminal factions, based in Brasília, and of its Pernambuco regional office.[2]Gazeta Brasil’s report of the same operation was first published on 8 March
2024.[3]
Photos and video
Federal Police handout photo published with the report on the February–March 2024 eradication in the sertão of Pernambuco, captioned as showing the destruction of 190,000 plants and 19,000 seedlings. Photo: Polícia FederalPhoto details
The Federal Police did not say whether anyone was arrested, so no arrest or charge is recorded.
The 190,000 plants are reported as about that number, not an exact count.
The 63 tonnes is the Federal Police estimate of what the crop could have yielded, not a weight seized or destroyed.
The article gives no separate dates for individual raids; the campaign is dated at its end, 2 March 2024, and its results were published on 8 March 2024.
No field area or value was reported, and the pin marks the sertão region rather than a single plot.
The two other outlets reproduce the Federal Police statement, so they are not independent reporting.
The g1 photograph is credited only to the Polícia Federal and is not tied to a named municipality.
No court step or later development in this operation was reported.
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